Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

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Feature Friday - April 23, 2021

201.97/202.57

Slugs now below to the mollusk faction.
If you are unable to use Take All because of a nearby hostile creature, you now get a popup message.
Made sprinting and power skating work on the same sort of toggle mechanism, and made their effects more legible.
Your companions are now smarter about when they engage in combat.
Acquiring a mutation while dominating a creature no longer adds an entry to your chronology as if you acquired the mutation.
Added a death message for being bitten to death.
Naming creatures according to their culture, and naming items according to creatures' culture, now works more often.
Gamma moth mutation can grant MP to True Kin again.
Fixed a bug that caused the length of stacked copper wire to not be counted properly.
Fixed a bug that caused letters to occasionally disappear in creature names on the sidebar of the classic UI.
Fixed a bug that caused Sling and Run to apply to non-pistol weapons.
Fixed a bug that caused injuries suffered by creatures falling on something below them to be messaged as if the creature below had fallen.
Fixed a bug that caused your companions to tolerate being attacked by NPCs.
Fixed a bug that caused some creatures' hostility status to be ignored at closer distances than intended.
Fixed a bug that caused hologram bracelets to become disabled.
Fixed a typo in mural text.
Fixed a bug that prevented successfully pouring liquids on non-flying things while you were flying.
[modding] The general cultural naming patterns used in the game are now moddable via Naming.xml. (Most hero naming currently still runs via the tags in ObjectBlueprints.xml.)

[ 2021-04-24 08:17:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Caves of Qud

Freehold Games Developer

Freehold Games Publisher

2015-07-15 Release

Indie Strategy RPG Singleplayer EA Tags

Game News Posts: 439

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Overwhelmingly Positive (7325 reviews)

http://www.cavesofqud.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Caves of Qud - Linux [214.01 M]

Available DLCs:

Caves of Qud - Pet Pack 1

Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth?

Who are you?

Play the role of a mutant indigenous to the salt-spangled dunes and jungles of Qud, or play a pure-strain descendant from one of the few remaining eco-domes—the toxic arboreta of Ekuemekiyye, the Holy City; the ice-sheathed arcology of Ibul; or the crustal mortars of Yawningmoon.

You arrive at the oasis-hamlet of Joppa, along the far rim of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert. All around you, moisture farmers tend to groves of viridian watervine. There are huts wrought from rock salt and brinestalk. On the horizon, Qud's jungles strangle chrome steeples and rusted archways to the earth. Further and beyond, the fabled Spindle rises above the fray and pierces the cloud-ribboned sky.

You clutch your rifle, or your vibroblade, or your tattered scroll, or your poisonous stinger, or your hypnotized goat. You approach a watervine farmer—he lifts the brim of his straw hat and says, "Live and drink, friend."

What can you do?

Anything and everything. Caves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world.

Assemble your character from over 70 mutations and defects and 24 castes and kits—outfit yourself with wings, two heads, quills, four arms, flaming hands, or the power to clone yourself—it's all the character diversity you could want.
Explore procedurally-generated regions with some familiar locations—each world is nearly 1 million maps large.

Dig through everything—don't like the wall blocking your way? Dig through it with a pickaxe, or eat through it with your corrosive gas mutation, or melt it to lava. Yes, every wall has a melting point.
Hack the limbs off monsters—every monster and NPC is as fully simulated as the player. That means they have levels, skills, equipment, faction allegiances, and body parts. So if you have a mutation that lets you, say, psionically dominate a spider, you can traipse through the world as a spider, laying webs and eating things.
Pursue allegiances with over 60 factions—apes, crabs, robots, and highly entropic beings—just to name a few.
Follow the plot to Barathrum the Old, a sentient cave bear who leads a sect of tinkers intent on restoring technological splendor to Qud.
Learn the lore—there's a story in every nook, from legendary items with storied pasts to in-game history books written by plant historians.
Die—Caves of Qud is brutally difficult and deaths are permanent. Don't worry, though—you can always roll a new character.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 18.04. and CentOS 7
Processor: 1GHz or faster. SSE2 instruction set support.Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics card: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capable
Storage: 2 GB available space

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